Ente Photos User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience74.2% of reviews
Neutral6.7% of reviews
Negative experience19.1% of reviews

~ Based on 178 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Ente Photos Safe?

Ente Photos appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Ente Photos is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 261 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 261 App Store ratings for Ente Photos.

Is Ente Photos Legit?

Ente Photos appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ente Photos is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Wäre eine gute Alternative

Ich war endlich froh eine datenschutzfreundliche Alternative zum großen G oder A zu haben. Ich habe mich aber getäuscht. Mein hauptgrund für ente war, dass es eine Gesichtserkennung gibt. Die gibt es auch. Ich muss aber nahezu jedes einzelne Foto bestätigen, ob das auch wirklich Person xy ist. Dann kann man es auch gleich sein lassen. Schade..
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Viele Fehler wenig Funktionen

Für mich ist der Dienst sein Geld nicht Wert. Ständig gibt es Fehler beim Speichern von Änderungen. Die Synchronisation dauert manchmal ewig. Die Bearbeitungsfunktionen für Fotos sind rudimentär. Drag and Drop aus der Anwendung in andere Apps geht nicht.

Awesome self hosted

I have self hosted the server on a little raspberry, works almost flawlessly. Kudos to the Ente team for keeping this project open source and stable.

Locked in to a subscription.

No option to revert to the free 10gb once subscription has expired.

Could be better

Streaming video caped at 720p. Or you have to download the file every time to view. And only do 60 second videos and only the last 60 day videos are available to stream. So you’re not an alternative?? Lol you’re an almost alternative to Google Photos, Apple photos, and Amazon photos. Others stream video no problem or limit. Hopefully that will change cause the interface is nice though.
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Absolut banger

Supporter cette team de dev c’est des bons. L’app est top, éthique et safe. ❤️

Great app, missing face tags

I love this app, but so wish that it had better facial recognition features. At minimum, I would love a way to manually be able to tag my dog in a picture. The only word around is moving pictures to an album.

Degoogle and support an Indian creation - win-win

Moved to Ente Photos as a paying user almost two years ago from Dropbox, which itself a decision because i wanted to avoid paying for Google Photos - and we haven’t looked back.

We have a Family account that is about to fill up (~800 GB) of photos and videos, across Android and iOS devices.

The fact that the app is open source AND end-to-end encrypted was the deciding factor, and i gladly pay Ente for the service!
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Шифрованное фотооблако

Как фанат шифропанка давно искал что-то подобное. Хорошее приложение. Есть возможность самохостинга

Great!!! But not privacy focussed…

Great app and they’ve nearly thought of everything! Some of the features are hidden by click-click-click into different areas of the app, but on the whole really good and privacy focussed which is a bonus.

There needs to be some further development, such as changing the location of the photographs or EXIF data. If I wanted to erase this completely it should be an option. There are some photos I’d like to remove this from to avoid sharing too much and doxxing but it seems you can’t. For family stuff and albums I don’t mind but for a privacy focussed app there should be a ‘Zap metadata’ option for certain photos or albums as a whole.

Great start and now a subscriber (and recommended some people so I get extra storage!) but I’d like to see more privacy focussed features. I’m also a little dubious after clearing the cache and going into airplane mode that I’m able to see images…. How is this so…. I’m not sure Ente has completely ‘Entayed’ the privacy market whilst lacking these features and, apparently, storing images locally that cannot be cleared by the cache…

Photo editing isn’t great, either. I know there are other apps for this but this is literally a photo app. When editing there’s no quick way of seeing the before and after (or before and current edit) that most editing apps have. Also, really annoying, when you do make edits, it vibrates - and NOT haptic feedback as you’d expect! When I was editing, it thought the White House was trying to get through! It buzzed so much I thought there was a national emergency - to the point I checked all my messaging apps and the phone app to see if I had missed something urgent! Not great.

Ente need to address some of the above and I’d like to see an option to disabling caching of images! I think there might be a workaround by adding to a Hidden folder and then deleting the cache after, but I cannot be certain.
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Optimal!

Funktioniert tadellos. Nur das Laden der Videos könnte schneller gehen. Könnte aber auch an unserem Heimserver liegen..

Blatant UI regression

I don’t think I have ever seen an app get so blatantly worse in one version. Did some publish a previous version of the app? Is this a joke? Literally every object and icon has taken a full explicit step backwards in clarity and usability.

Photos gone

I added photos and videos on this app yesterday. I checked to make sure they were there and they were in the uncategorized folder. I then deleted them from my phone. I go back on today and they’re all gone, it says I haven’t used any storage so now my photos and videos are gone forever. I’m really upset about this, be careful.
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Best Encrypted Photo Backup Service

I’ve been trying to get away from Google Photos and OneDrive and attempted Proton Drive. I found the user interface unintuitive and extremely difficult to use. Ente has the same end-to-end encryption and quality of life features like being able to just use it like a photo app. It backs up when the phone is locked and the ability to search can’t be overstated. Being able to share photos with friends and family is an amazing feature that I thought wouldn’t be possible with encryption. I will be recommending this service to anyone.
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Annoyed within minutes

This app craves everything you have and annoys you into submitting to full photo access and machine learning. Let me pick what I want to share, when I want, and stop forcing users to grant permissions through progressive screens you can’t get past without submitting.

Would love some tutorials

Just switched over from Amazon Photos this week, paid up for a year. The subreddit is helpful for figuring out more of how it works.

The best cloud photo storage

I've been using this app for years on my phone and PC to back up my photos. It's reliable, fast, and easy to use. It's the quickest way I've found to transfer photos between my devices. Couldn't recommend enough!

Trustworthy app, but HEATS UP A LOT!!!!!

Been using this app for over a year now with my partner and it’s the only one we trust with our photos. Works great on his Android, but it gets really hot on my iPhone 17 idk why

Gute Photo Cloud

Bin mit der App zufrieden. Besonders gut finde ich das Machine Learning auf dem Gerät. Gut für Bilder und Videos

Aktuell nicht brauchbar

Egal ob in einem Foto oder einem Album - sobald man auf die drei Punkte oben rechts drückt öffnet sich das Menü und schließt sich direkt wieder.